Distracted Driving:

Detecting Texting with

Neural Networks


Joseph Blubaugh

29 March 2017

Contents


  • Data Introduction, Preparation, and Project Management
  • Exploratory Analysis and Model Proposal
  • Understanding Basic Neural Nets
  • Model Training and Selection
  • Exploring Model Effects

Data Introduction

Data Extraction and Preparation

Project Management


Data Introduction

  • The data in this project are of 8 driving simulations for 66 individuals ranging from 3,000 to 30,000 observations per simulation.
  • Every simulation observation contains likelihood scores for 8 facial expressions recorded at a fixed interval of .03 seconds.
  • Stimuli data which records targetted events introduced into each simulation and basic demographic data on each subject are also available.
  • There are over 6.7 million observations in the entire dataset spread accross 777 files.

T001-001.xlsx (Subject 01, Simulation 01)
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Data Extraction

  • Python scripts were used to extract and combine the 509 driving simulation files and 267 stimuli files into combined data sets.
  • The subject-simulation identifier was the name of each file. A column labeled ID was created based on the file name to identify the original data set.

Sample of data-faces.csv

Frame Time Anger Contempt Disgust Fear Joy Sad Surprise Neutral ID
0 0.0000 0.0101 0.0218 0.0043 0.0541 0.5260 0.0959 0.0010 0.2868 T001-001
1 0.0333 0.0101 0.0218 0.0043 0.0541 0.5260 0.0959 0.0010 0.2868 T001-001
2 0.0667 0.0101 0.0218 0.0043 0.0541 0.5260 0.0959 0.0010 0.2868 T001-001
3 0.1000 0.0080 0.0187 0.0032 0.0375 0.5353 0.1050 0.0011 0.2911 T001-001
4 0.1333 0.0091 0.0380 0.0158 0.0036 0.6902 0.0177 0.0004 0.2252 T001-001
5 0.1667 0.0104 0.0450 0.0139 0.0030 0.7157 0.0162 0.0003 0.1955 T001-001

Sample of data-stimuli.csv

Start End Event.Switch Event.Type Event ID
86.5 246.50 1 1 Analytical Questions T001-005
508.5 657.50 1 2 Mathematical Questions T001-005
107.5 269.25 1 3 Emotional Questions T001-006
521.0 674.75 1 3 Emotional Questions T001-006
81.0 240.00 1 4 Texting T001-007
510.0 671.00 1 4 Texting T001-007

  • NOTE: 2 simulation files started on different rows than the rest of the 507 files and had to be manually corrected.
    • T034-005.xlsx: header starts on row 8
    • T009-006.xlsx: header starts on row 10

Data Preparation

  • The event data captured the starting and ending times of events only.
  • A loop function was written to go through each record and compare time between the simulation and the starting/ending time of the event.
  • If the simulation time fell within the starting/ending time interval in the event data, then all of the records in the time interval were coded with that event (ie: Texting)
  • All observations outside of the event time interval were coded as No Event.


Sample of Cleaned Data Showing an Event Transition

Subject Trial Age Gender Frame Time Event.Switch Event Action Anger Contempt Disgust Fear Joy Sad Surprise Neutral Texting
T001 007 Y M 2427 80.900 0 No Event 0 0.0909 0.0575 0.4205 3e-04 0.0011 0.1343 0 0.2954 0
T001 007 Y M 2428 80.933 0 No Event 0 0.0612 0.0397 0.4293 4e-04 0.0011 0.1630 0 0.3052 0
T001 007 Y M 2429 80.967 0 No Event 0 0.1034 0.0963 0.3186 2e-04 0.0013 0.0856 0 0.3946 0
T001 007 Y M 2430 81.000 1 Texting 4 0.0363 0.4976 0.0171 1e-04 0.0024 0.0069 0 0.4396 1
T001 007 Y M 2431 81.033 1 Texting 4 0.0059 0.7285 0.0027 4e-04 0.0068 0.0063 0 0.2493 1
T001 007 Y M 2432 81.067 1 Texting 4 0.0058 0.6890 0.0035 4e-04 0.0077 0.0068 0 0.2868 1


  • NOTE: The average texting event lasted 2.5 minutes, but we dont really know what occurred during the event time interval. Was there one long texting action or was the event made up of a series of sending and receiving texts?

Project Management


Reproducible Research

  • Code, plots, and this presentation are organized and hosted in a github repository.
  • The main page includes steps to reproduce the data set and models
  • The data is too large to be hosted and would need to be retrieved elsewhere


Github Project: https://github.com/jestonblu/driving

Github Project Page Drawing



Exploratory Analysis

and

Model Proposal


Exploratory Analysis

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  • The yellow and gray points represent events during the trials
  • The baseline trial has no events and is gray throughout.
  • LOESS (Local Polynomial Regression) lines display the moving average over the entire simulation
  • Many subjects displayed visual differences between the texting simulation and the baseline simulation

Exploratory Analysis

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Exploratory Analysis

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  • The same LOESS lines were used to show all 59 subjects on a single plot
  • All observations were centered on the overall average of the baseline simulation
  • Anger, Contempt, Disgust, and Neutral displayed more variation than the other emotions for both trials

Model Proposal

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Takeaways

  • Differences in variation between the trials suggest that it may be possible to build a model capable of predicting a texting event

  • Subject specific plots are unique enough that a individual subjects variables may be needed in modeling

  • Baseline Trial: Trial 4 was used as a baseline trial because the conditions were identical to the Texting Trial (dense traffic with detour)


Model Proposal:

  • Train Neural Networks using emotional likelihoods and demographics to predict when a subject is texting
    • Well suited for large data sets of continuous variables
    • Analogous to logistic regression and appropriate for predicting probabilities



Understanding Basic

Neural Networks


Neural Network Basics

Basic Neural Network Example Drawing

General Model Form

\[ nnet(O1 \sim X1 + X2, size = 3) \]


Feed-Forward Neural Networks

  • Class of Statistical Learning model
  • Similar to logistic regression
  • Typically displayed as a diagram of connected nodes


Neural Network Components

  • Nodes:
    • Input Nodes: Input values of the predictor variables
    • Hidden and Output Nodes: Value are the sumproduct of the connected weights
  • Weights: Represents the transformation that takes place between nodes
  • Activation Function: Transforms the output into an appropriate scale
    • For logistic regression, the sigmoid function: \( S(x) = \frac{1}{1 + \exp(-x)} \)

Neural Network Basics

Step 1: Initialize Model Weights are Random


Step 2: Calculate Hidden Weights and Output Node Prediction

  • Hidden Node values are the sum product of the connected weights and input nodes

\[ \begin{align} H1 = & (1)(.2) + (1)(.4) = 0.6, \text{ } S(0.6) = .645 \\ H2 = & (1)(.1) + (1)(.6) = 0.7, \text{ }S(0.7) = .668 \\ H3 = & (1)(.7) + (1)(.3) = 1.0, \text{ }S(1.0) = .731 \\ \end{align} \]

  • Output Node Prediction

\[ O1 = (.645)(.3) + (.668)(.5) + (.731)(.7) = 1.039 \\ S(1.039) = .739 \]

  • Model Error: .739

NOTE: Activation Function \[ \begin{align} S(x) = & \frac{1}{1 + \exp(-x)} \end{align} \]

First Iteration of a Basic Neural Network Drawing

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Neural Network Basics

Step 3: Update Weights Based on Error

  • Update Weights between Hidden Layer and Output Node

\[ \begin{align} Delta = & S'(.739) = .2187 \\ \\ DeltaChange = & (.2187) / [.645, .668, .731] = [.339, .327, .299] \\ \\ w_7 = & .645 - .339 = .306 \\ w_8 = & .668 - .327 = .341 \\ w_9 = & .731 - .299 = .432 \\ \end{align} \]

  • Update Weights between Input Node and Hidden Layer

\[ \begin{align} DeltaWeights = & Delta / [.3, .5, .7] * S'([.6, .7, 1]) \\ = & [.1667, .0969, .0614] \\ \\ DeltaChange = & DeltaWeights / [1, 1] \\ = & [.167, .097, .061, .167, .097, .061] \\ \\ w_1 = & .2 - .167 = .033 \\ w_2 = & .1 - .097 = .003 \\ w_3 = & .7 - .061 = .639 \\ w_4 = & .4 - .167 = .233 \\ w_5 = & .6 - .097 = .503 \\ w_6 = & .3 - .061 = .239 \\ \end{align} \]

Step 4: Repeat Steps 2-3 to update the hidden and output node values

  • S(.633) = .653, Error = .653 vs previous .739

First Iteration of a Basic Neural Network Drawing

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  • \( S'(x) = S(x)(1 - S(x)) \)



Model Fitting and Selection